At 11:12 AM 9/9/99 -0400, Paul A. wrote:
(with regard to Biblical numerology, to whatever extent that isn't an oxymoron)>>Skeptics might point out that all the numbers involved are>small, which increases the likelihood that interrelationships>will exist. If there were a trillion letters in the alphabet, there>would be far less instances of matching. And how probabilities>are calculated depends on some assumptions. There don't>seem to be a lot of 'controlled' experiments such as >attempts to find similar coincidences in secular books.

Actually there has been at least one such effort. I don't have time to
look for the reference, but I recall that some people produced results
similar to "The Bible Code" using as their text a Hebrew translation of
"War and Peace".